[Gimp-user] Workflow in Gimp

2009-09-06 Thread Carusoswi
I'm stumped. I duplicated my background layer, set the duplicate to screen mode, added a layer mask, edited that mask, copied that layer (it defaults to the top position in the layer stack), I right clicked on my first duplicate layer, but find "Mask to Selection" greyed out. What did I do wrong?

[Gimp-user] Workflow in Gimp

2009-09-06 Thread Carusoswi
Thanks for both of these helpful replies. Rolf, I have already downloaded episode 69, will have to work through it again, as, although it deals with layers, I did not connect that session with the question which I posted above. Saulgoode, I'll also have to try your suggestion step by step - it lo

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Re: [Gimp-user] Workflow in Gimp

2009-09-06 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Carusoswi : : : > In Gimp, I copy the background layer and set it to screen mode, then add a > layer mask that hides this layer so I can paint the additional exposure onto > her body. > > Next, I'd like to add another layer and follow similar steps that will allow > me to darken the sky. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Workflow in Gimp

2009-09-06 Thread meetthegimp.org
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Carusoswi wrote: > Still working my way around this great program - still wondering if I am > proceeding in the most logical manner. > > Example: > I captured an image of my daughter sitting in the bow of our boat. Sky is > cloudless, sun is on her left right com

[Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-06 Thread photocomix
> Zoom tool only modifies the view... is that non destructive enough? >Not enough. (Did you mean that you do not care about what >magnification an image is shown at?) The point was not if you (or somebody else) care about "magnification an image is shown ": the point is that operation is abs

[Gimp-user] Important menu options are missing

2009-09-06 Thread Bill S.
>On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Bill S. wrote: >> I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro. I've been trying >> to learn about GIMP. I bought a book about GIMP for $45. The book says there >> should be a menu item called DIALOGS in the FILE menu but my GIMP doesn't have >> th

[Gimp-user] Workflow in Gimp

2009-09-06 Thread Carusoswi
Still working my way around this great program - still wondering if I am proceeding in the most logical manner. Example: I captured an image of my daughter sitting in the bow of our boat. Sky is cloudless, sun is on her left right coming in at probably 10:00 over her shoulder. Best exposure leav

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-06 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On 2009-09-05, Olivier Lecarme wrote: > It seems that the whole preceding thread is focused on the wrong point. > The initial writers want a "non-tool" because they want to click on the > image window without doing anything. But why do they want to click it? > Certainly only for giving it the focu

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-06 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On 2009-09-04, GSR - FR wrote: >> The first thing I do when entering GIMP is switching to the eyepicker >> (or is is dropper? ;-) tool. But it is not non-destructive enough; >> and it is useless as a default tool. > Zoom tool only modifies the view... is that non destructive enough? Not enough.

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-06 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On 2009-09-06, David Gowers <00a...@gmail.com> wrote: > However, when the program explicitly states its purpose > http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision > > You will need to explain how your request is relevant to that vision > in order to have any likelihood of having your